New 'Glee' continues to sparkle

The new season of Glee continued to sparkle on Monday evening, pulling in more than 1.6 million viewers, according to the latest audience data.

The musical comedy averaged 1.67m (6.4%) for E4 in the 9pm hour, by far the biggest multichannel audience of the night. A further 320k (1.7%) tuned in an hour later.

On BBC One, Silent Witness brought in 7.1m (27.3%) in the 9pm hour, beating The Biggest Loser with 3.82m (14.7%) on ITV1.

Earlier, The Lakes entertained 3.88m (15%) on ITV1 from 8pm. The One Show grabbed 5.21m (22.6%) on BBC One from 7pm, before Inside Out lured 3.8m (15.6%). Panorama: Britain's Missing Dads pulled in 3.12m (12%) from 8.30pm.

Over on BBC Two, Simon King's Shetland Diaries took 1.25m (5.3%) from 7pm. University Challenge and Baking Made Easy mustered 3.06m (11.8%) and 2.46m (9.4%) respectively in the 8pm hour. Horizon: What Is Reality? educated 1.84m (7.1%) in the 9pm hour, before new comedy Episodes amused 1.51m (7.4%).

Channel 4's Birth Of Britain fetched 1.36m (5.2%) from 8pm and 181k (0.7%) an hour later. It was followed by One Born Every Minute, which had 2.29m (8.8%) and 444k (2.4%) on timeshift. Alan Carr: Chatty Man returned with 1.37m (7.6%) from 10pm and 186k (2%) on +1.

How Do They Do It? entertained 612k (2.5%) on Channel 5 from 7.30pm, before Emergency Bikers fetched 910k (3.5%) in the 8pm hour. A screening of Eraser grabbed 1.33m (6.3%) from 9pm.

Overall, ITV1 narrowly won primetime with 23.5% against BBC One's 23.4%. BBC Two came third with 7.4%, followed by Channel 4 with 6.1% (+1: 0.9%) and Channel 5 with 4.2%.

BARB ratings data supplied by Attentional